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Submission deadline January 15th, 2026

GREEN GOOD DESIGN ARCHIVE | GREEN GOOD DESIGN APPLICATION

The Program of Green Good Design

The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have joined forces on two continents to present an innovative and challenging new public program: GREEN GOOD DESIGN .

GOOD DESIGN™ was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. to promote and foster a greater public understanding and acceptance for Modern Design. In 2026, seventy five years later, this new edition of GOOD DESIGN™ aims to bring a parallel public appreciation and awareness for an equally revolutionary design approach-a new design thinking led by a current generation of visionary architects, designers, urban planners, corporations, governments, individuals, and private and public institutions for a design and a public environment based upon the ideals of energy conservation; the reduction of toxic waste and greenhouse gases; the diminishing dependence on fossil fuels; and a sensitivity for waste, pollution, and the depletion of the world's energy resources. This new design approach centers on the idea of repairing our worldwide environments with sustainability and for total ecological restoration.

Now in turn and in 2026, GREEN GOOD DESIGN's goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions - together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts-that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more sustainable universe.

Like 1950, when Modern Design was blazing a new direction in design history, GREEN GOOD DESIGN™ attempts to impact consumer habits, restructure manufacturing output, influence the design of cities and public spaces, and raise a consciousness about our limited global resources and the disappearance of clean air, clean earth, and clean water. The founding organizers of GOOD DESIGN™ in the 1950s introduced Modern Design to the public forefront with passion, innovation, and revolutionary zeal. We aspire the same with GREEN GOOD DESIGN®.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 15th JANUARY 2026

CRITERIA

Products or buildings should have been designed or built after 1st January, 2024.
Any person/institution who has made a significant contribution to sustainability locally, nationally or internationally.
Any government/local government who has implemented a sustainability plan.
As with The Good Design™ ethos, everything and anything is considered in The Green Good Design Sustainability Awards™

NOMINATIONS/SUBMISSIONS

How Green are you REALLY?

To many, sustainability is little more than a trendy slogan or the latest marketing gimmick. To leaders in design, industry, manufacturing, and the corporate world, GREEN DESIGN adheres to strict guidelines in order to shape an international agenda and the international community's attitude toward economic, social, and environmental development.

Both organizing institutions in Europe and America are inviting open submissions to honour design innovation and pioneering achievements in this 2024 Awards Program. Architects, designers, urban planners, governments, manufacturers, corporations, institutions, organizations, individuals, as well as individual products, buildings, concepts, projects, programmes, and technology are eligible for submission.

A professional jury in the field of sustainability will review submissions and examine their substance and pursuit of excellence and determine the 2026 GREEN GOOD DESIGN SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS accordingly.

We invite your application for the 2026 Awards Program. Nominations are also made by The European Centre's International Advisory Committee.

Like the GOOD DESIGN™ Program of 1950, anything and everything is eligible for submission with the emphasis on the following that has successfully focused on the development and implementation of enabling instruments that support actual measures to achieve C02-reduction, energy conservation, renewable energy sources, recycling, sustainability, quality of life and environment, economic viability, and environmental economics and in particular:

• Architecture/Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture:

Skyscrapers, offices, homes, green buildings, green spaces, factories, reforestations, restorations and renovations that achieve sustainable living, working, and recreating environments.

• Product and Graphic Design:

Innovative Green Products that promote energy savings, recycling, and greater sustainability in all sectors of Industry from consumer goods, furniture, transportation, equipment, printing and packaging, construction materials to household and business products.

• Corporations:

Companies, developers, manufacturers, contractors, financial parties that have emblazoned the path and taken a leadership role toward renewable resources, energy management, recycling, and sustainability.

• Government:

Nations, states, cities, and towns that have promoted energy-awareness, enacted legislation, actual programs, conservation, recycling, preservation, renovation, restoration and redevelopment of their urban, suburban, and rural environments.

• Institutions, Organizations, Universities, Media, NGOs:

Public and private entities that have pioneered new concepts, leadership programmes, public initiatives, public policy, and campaigns for social and economic well-being, the protection of the environment and its resources, restorative enterprises, public-awareness for an emission free environment, global sustainability, and socially cohesive neighborhoods and cities-from the garden to the planet- taking into account the environment's impact for future generations.

• New Technology:

Next generation instruments and devices that determine and manage greater optimum energy standards, efficiency, sustainability, recycling, life-cycle and facility management.

• Programmes and Research:

Innovative and inspiring programmes based on "best practice" results.

• People:

Individuals who are leaders, pioneers, and innovators in GREEN DESIGN

HOW TO APPLY

In order to apply you need to visit awardapplication.com Organization Page. You need to create an account applying all your company information. If you already have created an account please log in with your username and password. All required fields must be filled in. If a required field is left blank the form will be rejected. After a successful application you will receive an email with a unique ID number for your submission, a pre-invoice for your submission and a pdf document with all information in case you choose to pay with bank transfer. All final invoices are sending to all clients periodically after we check all transactions passed through correctly. You can always log in to your account to see passed submissions or download your passed invoices.

PROJECT DETAILS & MATERIAL

Credits
All information submitted will be included in all online presentation, exhibition and Award publication catalogue. Please ensure that possible changes or mistakes according to credits, images and project description may incur costs. During your submission please advise all examples given in every section to ensure all credit details filled in correctly.

Project Description
All project descriptions should be edited in English, should be ready to use in any type of online presentation or publication and should not be more than 500 words. There is a specific text tab to include it when submitting so please do not forward it with email or any other way to us.

Project Images
IMAGE FILE TYPE: .jpg, .webp, or .png
ASPECT RATIO: W1920px H1080px
RESOLUTION: 300dpi
SIZE: 6MB/image

Notes
• All images file names should use only Latin characters
• If you want to forward more images for the jury procedure or blueprints please use the dropbox link to upload. Make sure your dropbox folder is public so we can have access.

Please contact Fachanan Conlon If you need assistance please do not hesitate to contact us on 00 353 (0) 1 670 8781

Green Categories

Anything produced and/or designed from January 2024 to the present is eligible including:

Green Architecture which includes Green Architecture, Green Community projects, Green Corporations, Green Energy Architecture, Green Environments, Green Urban Planning and Landscape.
Green Graphic Design which category includes Green Packaging, Green Graphic Design and Green Mobile Applications.
Green Organizations and People which category includes Green Government and Institutions, Green People and Green Organizations.
Green Product Design which category includes Green Electronics, Green New Materials and Green Products.
Green Research and Technology which category includes Green Recycling, Green Energy, Green Research and Green Technology.
Green Transportation which category includes Green Vehicles and any other Green Transportation equipment or product.

• For questions about the Award application contact us 00 353 (0) 1 670 8781
• For questions about the Award application e-mail us at fachanan@europeanarch.eu
• All photographs must be labeled with project, designer, manufacturer and photographer credits.
• All winning entries become property of the Permanent Design Collection at The Chicago Athenaeum.
• Projects selected for exhibition will require the physical use of the product or model for exhibition purposes.
• Late submissions add €100.00 USD per entry.

Valid Applications
Products or buildings should have been designed or built after January 1st, 2024. Any person/institution who has made a significant contribution to sustainability locally, nationally or internationally. Any government/local government who has implemented a sustainability plan.As with The Good Design™ ethos, everything and anything is considered in The Green Good Design Sustainability Awards™

Entry Fee

Application fee is €375 per project for the applications paid online choosing debit or credit card.
Application fee is €375 + €25 (bank costs) per project for the applications paid online choosing bank transfer.

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